Pick of the Week: British radical loved by the Americans
ESTIMATED at £800-1200, this 5in (12.5cm) high creamware mug decorated with a portrait of the radical politician and journalist John Wilkes (1725-97) sold for £10,000 (plus 22% buyer’s premium) to lead the ceramics and glass sale at Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury on February 28.
It was underbid in the room by an English collector but is now going to the US.
The inscription Wilke…